Friday, June 13, 2025
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: LIFE IS SHORT
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: LIFE IS SHORT: “Forever is composed of nows.” Emily Dickinson We could die tomorrow, or today. Even...
LIFE IS SHORT
“Forever is composed of nows.” Emily Dickinson
We could die tomorrow, or today. Even if we do not and we end up living
60 more years, life is short. Really short. A month, a year may seem like
a long time, so do what you can to make it feel like a long time and get
things done. Make the most of it. Do not put off until tomorrow what you
can do today. I do not mean just go on vacation or work even harder. I
mean your point of view, your frame of mind, enjoy the moment. Seize
the day. Focus. Be kind. Help what you can help right in front of you.
Do what you can. Plan big. Work towards it but do excellent work.
Productive work. Not for the sake of being busy, or work for the sake
of work. Work that makes you feel good inside. Work at what interests
you. Take care of yourself. You are going to die, but do not hasten your
death by your own doing and failing to take care of yourself. Exercise.
Nutrition. Sleep. Eliminating unhealthy habits (alcohol) that you know
are proven to shorten life. Get busy living. Your life can end in a flash,
think about death often, take what is left of your life and live it properly.
Do the right thing. Live like you are dying because you are.
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Friday, May 30, 2025
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: CHANGE
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: CHANGE: “If we wait for some other person to help us, or some other time, change will never happen. You are the one you have been waiting for.” ...
CHANGE
“If we wait for some other person to help us, or
some other time, change will never happen. You
are the one you have been waiting for.”
Barack Obama
“How long are you going to wait before you
demand the very best of yourself?”
Epictetus
You may think, feel, or say, well I am good, why do I need to change?
We can always improve. Believe in better. We can always learn. We
can always do better. Be stronger, faster, smarter, kinder, simpler.
Whatever fate brings our way, we can always change and improve on
how we go about our lives. Curiosity, learning, planning, practicing,
improving our skills. If we sit inside our comfort zones and do not get
outside of ourselves, pushing, learning, being productive, growing
then we just sit there and get stale like leftover pizza or bread that no
one wants and gets thrown out.
“No man steps in the same river twice. The river
is not the same and you are not the same.”
Heraclitus
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: PREDICTING THE FUTURE
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: PREDICTING THE FUTURE: “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ...
PREDICTING THE FUTURE
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“We have a lot of troubles in our lives, most of which never happened.”
Mark Twain
We can worry ourselves into a frenzy thinking about the future. Most of
these “worries” will never happen except in our imagination. It is good
to prepare and plan, but not at the expense of missing the present
and what is right in front of us because we are too busy or distracted
fretting over what may or may not happen in the future. By preparing,
planning, and setting in motion what steps we can control, especially
controlling our own mind and thoughts, we minimize the uncertainty of
the future. We create a great deal of what happens to us. We cannot
just sit back and wait for good fortune to fall on our plate. We need to make our own fortune.
Shape our own destiny. Control what we can. Let go of what we cannot control.
Hope for the best, plan for the worst. Identify what we need to do and get to work.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: DESTINY, FATE, AND FORTUNE
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: DESTINY, FATE, AND FORTUNE: “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.” ...
DESTINY, FATE, AND FORTUNE
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare
“Accept the place divine providence has found for you.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Destiny. Fate. Are they pre-determined? Do we determine? Is it both?
We certainly have choices in life. We can always control how hard we
work to improve ourselves for the better. We may have been born in
a certain place, with certain parents, in a particular body. Placed on
a certain path, but then the rest is up to us. In ourselves, through our
actions and choices. Learn, read, work out, be kind, help others, make
the best out of the situation right before you. Strive to be better each
day. Our judgment of things. Our point of view. They are all a matter
of how we choose to “see” things. Which path or paths do we choose.
How we go about doing the work is up to us. Yes, we are dealt a certain
hand, are given certain opportunities or obstacles. How we choose to
pursue and overcome them is up to us. Meanwhile, we must always
recognize and keep in mind that there is a higher power guiding us.
Everyone holds their fortune in their own hands. Everything that
happens to us is an opportunity to gain experience and grow. We
certainly have choices in life over what we can control and what we
cannot control. Kobe Bryant may have been born into a certain body
type, with a certain mindset, but, make no mistake, he was not gifted
into being one of the greatest NBA players of all time, he was one of
the hardest working players ever. Just like any other master of their
craft. My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati; that one
wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past,
not in all eternity. This means be at one with your fate and give your
actions the weight of all eternity. Think of it as doing things, so if you
had to hit repeat and do it repeatedly you would do it the same way,
again and again. Everything happens for a reason, a purpose, it is up
to us to make the most of it. Positive. Grow. Build. Make the world a
better place for us being here. Trust you are on the right path. Identify
your path and stay on the course, adjust as you need to. Trust your
moral compass, values and virtues and know generally you are on
the right trajectory.
We may not always be able to control what happens to us,
but we can always control how we choose to respond.”
Victor Frankel-Man’s Search for Meaning
“Not merely to endure that which happens
of necessity…. but to love it.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Monday, May 5, 2025
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: TRY NEW THINGS
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: TRY NEW THINGS: “You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to...
TRY NEW THINGS
“You’ll never get bored when you try something new.
There’s really no limit to what you can do.”
Dr. Seuss
Habit, routine, “our comfort zone” can be a good thing as we develop
good habits and productive routines, but we must also stay curious,
experience new things. Whether it’s food, travel, a different type of
exercise, genre of music or reading, experiment with new things.
Maybe it is learning a new language, or more about anatomy, neuroscience,
the stock market, dive in and try new things. Most people
grow old and say, I always wanted to learn “(you can insert whatever
here)” do not have that kind of regret, learn to cook, learn to fly fish.
When someone who has a lot of experience of doing something asks
you to come along and do it, do it. (Well avoid stupid unsafe things).
Boredom can be the worst feeling there is. When we are bored, we
make dumb choices, drink, read mindless garbage. Try something
new, you might be good at it and find a new passion or skill. You should
define for yourself your attitude towards this world. Shape your own
beliefs. Accept what works for you, question what does not. Do what
interests you.
“The important thing is to not stop questioning.”
Albert Einstein
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Friday, April 25, 2025
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: SOMETIMES YOU LEAD SOMETIMES YOU FOLLOW
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: SOMETIMES YOU LEAD SOMETIMES YOU FOLLOW: “Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.” ...
SOMETIMES YOU LEAD SOMETIMES YOU FOLLOW
“Life is a matter of choices, and every
choice you make makes you.”
John C. Maxwell
Prepare yes. Train yes. Practice, of course. But there is also magic in
just getting started. We will never be 100% ready. There may never
be a perfect time to get started. Just get started. Just go. There will be
times when we lead the charge. There will be times when we follow
the leader or mentor as we continue to learn. On a particular journey,
maybe someone has been there before having more experience and
can help show us the way. Other times we need to put others on our
back and lead the way. Other times we just need to grind it out solo.
This is often where the real work gets done. Put our heads down and
do the work. Remain steadfast. Magical things will happen. We find
our flow. Our ying and yang. We may just learn more as we go, or we
find what we need or get “help” along the way.
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Friday, April 11, 2025
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: YOU CANNOT CHEAT THE PERSON IN THE MIRROR
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: YOU CANNOT CHEAT THE PERSON IN THE MIRROR: “You can’t cheat the grind, it knows how much you’ve invested, it won’t give you nothing you haven’t worked for.” ...
YOU CANNOT CHEAT THE PERSON IN THE MIRROR
“You can’t cheat the grind, it knows how much you’ve
invested, it won’t give you nothing you haven’t worked for.”
Eric Thomas
No matter how hard it might be, the pain of regret after not doing it is
much harder. You will always know. Nobody else knows, you know
what you must do, you know what is right. You know how you got there.
At the end of the day, you will always have to look in the mirror and you
better like what you must look at. The most painful of all emotions are
guilt and regret. On the other hand, there is really nothing better than
knowing you did it. You did your best. You did your job. You practice,
you trained, you did not cheat time or hard work. You did it. You did
it well. It does not matter what the task at hand is, everything counts.
Even if you are scooping dog poop in the yard, do your best. The best
results come to those who earned it. Look in the mirror, stand tall and
be proud. It is the only way. You cannot cheat the person in the mirror.
You cannot cheat the grind.
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Friday, March 21, 2025
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: HOW STRONG YOU REALLY ARE
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: HOW STRONG YOU REALLY ARE: “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ...
HOW STRONG YOU REALLY ARE
“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re
braver than you believe, and stronger than
you seem, and smarter than you think.”
Christopher Robin to Pooh
You do not know how strong you are until you must be. We have no
idea what we are truly capable of until we must rise to the occasion.
Until we are tested. It has been said that when it comes to our physical
limits of what we are truly capable of endurance wise we tend to tap
out at about 40%. This holds true for what we are capable of mentally
as well. We are capable of so much more than we think we are or
give ourselves credit for. Physically and mentally. That time we had
our backs against the wall, and we came out and we did it. Believe.
Also, that is a good reason to never put your enemy’s back against the
wall. It is in adversity and struggles where we surprise ourselves with
what we can do. When we look back, we see that is when we learn
the most. This is the most rewarding. Life is boring and unrewarding
if we plod through safely without being tested or pushed to our limits.
Push hard. Continue and see what you are truly capable of and more.
You are more powerful than you will ever realize.
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Friday, March 7, 2025
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: UPHILL
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: UPHILL: “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people wh...
UPHILL
“Most of the important things in the world have been
accomplished by people who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie
I have heard it said that everything worthwhile is an uphill battle or a
struggle. This may be true to the extent that it inspires hard work and
advancing our skills leads to success and the satisfaction of a job
well done. Equally true are all the worthwhile things that come with
nature when you stop to soak in the beauty of the morning sunrise,
sunset, the stars, the moon, the rivers, lakes, and woods. I suppose
with nature, the universe, and preserving it has always taken work
and nowadays certainly is an uphill battle to preserve nature and what
comes naturally. Once you put in the work to get up that hill sometimes
you need to go back down. Do it all over again and again. Hill
repeats. Never rest on your laurels. Never fall victim to complacency.
Stagnant. Others in the world will pass you by. Just because it worked
before does not mean it will next time. Sometimes, even if it is just for
a little while you need to stop and stand on top of that hill and enjoy
the scenery. Savor it. Then look for the next hill to climb.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: THE RULE OF LAW
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: THE RULE OF LAW: The rule of law is the bedrock principle upon which our government and democracy is built. We the people, judges, juries, Congress and the...
THE RULE OF LAW
The rule of law is the bedrock principle upon which our government and democracy is built. We the people, judges, juries, Congress and the President must all abide by the rule of law or risk freedom and justice being taken away from us. Justice and the rule of law have been under attack and are in grave danger. This precarious situation has caused many of those charged with protecting the integrity of our judicial system to affirm their support of the rule of law in America. To that end, more than 500 law school deans and professors, law firm partners, and former judges have signed a letter calling on all government officials — including President Trump — to obey judicial decisions.
Here’s an excerpt from that letter:
Presidents from the early days of our Republic have pushed the boundaries of their authority. But virtually without exception, presidents have abided by court orders, even ones with which they strongly disagree.There are disturbing signs that the administration of President Trump will defy court orders. On several occasions, the administration has proclaimed that the President is not required to comply with court decisions. Even worse, on other occasions, members of the Trump administration have openly defied judicial orders. …We call on the President and all in the executive branch to abide by court orders. We urge Congress to play its role under the Constitution in checking abuses of presidential power. And we ask that the courts play their fundamental role in enforcing the Constitution of the United States.
We must all support and stand behind the rule of law in the United States. It is our duty as citizens of the United States of America.
Will you uphold the rule of law?
You decide.
Friday, February 28, 2025
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: MANTRE
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: MANTRA: “Mood follows action.” Rich Roll A man...
MANTRA
“Mood follows action.”
Rich Roll
A mantra can help keep us focused or bring us back to reminding us
what is important to us. A mantra such as, “I cannot always control
what happens to me or around me, but I can control how I choose
to react to it,” can help us control our temper or anxiety and keep
us grounded. A mantra when we are running up that hill, such as “I
am strong, I am strong,” can keep us moving and pushing forward.
A mantra such as: “thank you God for this beautiful day and all the
goodness it will bring” is a way to practice gratitude. “I am going to
be the best version of myself in this moment.” A mantra when we are
going to trial, deposition, or give a presentation, when our nerves are
running high, such as “I am calm, I am calm” can keep us relaxed
and focused. A mantra allows us to keep calm, relax, stay focused
and remind ourselves we are prepared and quite ready and perfectly
capable of accomplishing the task at hand, while keeping us within
our mission and value system we have created for ourselves. Repeat
your mantra when you are running or meditating.
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Friday, February 14, 2025
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: COURAGE
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: COURAGE: COURAGE “Courage is grace under pressure.” Ernest Hemingway “Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.” ...
COURAGE
COURAGE
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.”
John Wayne
Courage is knowing the right thing to do and doing it even when it is
hard. Courage is the will and discipline to prepare. Courage is something
we are born with, but we must recognize the courage is there. We
must look for it. Cultivate it. Grow it. Courage is not arrogance, stupidity
and doing foolish things. There is a difference between courage,
bravery, and foolishness, we must recognize the difference. Courage
is standing up for what you know is right. Pursuing the right things.
Doing our best. Making good choices. Taking care of ourselves and
taking care of others is courage. Sometimes courage is not always
saddling up anyway and doing something, it can also be restraint or
temperance and not doing anything. Self- control. Courage is setting
aside your own doubts, what other people may think and doing your
best, no matter what. Courage is in us. It is in there. It may not always
feel like it, but trust yourself, know that you have the courage. Everyone
is scared, nervous, apprehensive, excited, anxious, whatever label
you choose to put on it. If you do not have butterflies in your stomach
or your stomach does not feel like a bowl full of jelly it means you do
not care or your dead inside. Take the energy. Take the excitement,
the “butterflies” and use it to your advantage to stay focused, do
something in the moment, breathe deeply and relish the experience.
You are well prepared. You are unique. You have the skill. You have
the power. You are plenty capable of getting the job done. Who cares
what other people think about how you look, your hair or whatever
imagined up fears or concerns you have? You have the power, and
it ought not to be wasted. Rise to the occasion. Banish all self-doubt.
Without courage we cannot practice kindness, honesty, generosity,
or truthfulness. Courage. What is courage to you? It means standing
up. Being resolute in what you know deep down in your soul is right.
Courage is not puffery, recklessness, or being foolhardy. Courage is
being prepared. Courage is not giving in to what others may try to
force on you when you know it is wrong. Do the right thing. Do your
best. That is courageous.
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is
going on when you don’t have the strength.”
Theodore Roosevelt
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Friday, January 24, 2025
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: KEEP GOING
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: KEEP GOING: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort an...
KEEP GOING
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience, but where
he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The going gets tough sometimes. There is a lot of tough going in life,
and when we feel that way we just need to keep going. It will inevitably
get better. We will be the better person or better for it because we kept
going. Struggled through and never faltered. It is like mile two in a 5K
race or mile nine in a half marathon or mile 18 in a marathon, there
is always a tough stretch, a wall, but if we push on, we will reach new
heights. New horizons. New levels. We will get the job done. It is not
given to us on a silver platter. It is not worth it if it was. We must earn
it. Then the reward is worth it. Then we feel the sense of worthiness.
The sense of accomplishment. We did it. As Winston Churchill said,
“we have just got to keep buggering on!”
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Friday, January 17, 2025
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: MOTIVATION
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: MOTIVATION: “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” ...
MOTIVATION
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
Ralph Marston
We do not always feel motivated. In fact, some days we may go out
of our way to avoid the task at hand. This is when our discipline must
kick in. We are not always motivated so we must be disciplined. As
usual it comes down to just getting started. Once we get started, we
find our flow. On those rare occasions we just do not even find our
flow, when we complete the task at hand, when we are done, we feel
better about ourselves than how we would feel if we skipped out on
the workout, work, or whatever job needed to be done. We are going
to have to get it done at some point, so why not just get it done? The
satisfaction of a job well done, or even just getting it done is way better
than the feeling of guilt or regret of not doing it. Lack of motivation can
be just another form of resistance we need to overcome. So, step up
to the start line and just get going.
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Friday, January 10, 2025
BE A GIANT
“If I have seen further, it is by standing
on the shoulders of giants.”
Isaac Newton
Everything builds on itself. Nothing is new. Our thoughts. Our ideas.
Our actions, which all may seem original, or we may think they are,
but consciously or unconsciously we are taking the seeds of someone
else’s thoughts, ideas or work and growing them. Improving them.
Making them bigger or better with fresh insights and new points of
view. Different environments that are more receptive to ideas or work.
History repeats itself for sure. Make no mistake, many critical thinkers
and “inventors” have come forth with fantastically new concepts, ideas,
and improvements, but all this is building on someone else’s foundational
work. New breakthroughs and “improvements” may come, but
for all the unheralded or long forgotten work of many, many others
that started the ball bouncing down the path, the breakthrough innovations
would have been much delayed. We all rely on those who came
before us and around us. Give credit where credit is due and be that
giant for someone else in the future. We learn so much from those
who came before us, or we should if we only look. As it is often said,
“history repeats itself.” Technology may be vastly different, but the
underlying principles, problems, issues, human nature, rarely change.
Chances are someone has been there and done that. Learn from
other people’s mistakes. Improve upon them and make them better.
Learn from other people’s experiences and wisdom. There are so
many people in the history of the world that we can gain insight and
lessons from. Whether it be “ancient history” like Marcus Aurelius and
Seneca or “modern times” like people who are alive today, over the
last few decades and centuries. Learn from the best. Stand on the
shoulders of giants. Gain fundamental insights into what great minds
have learned before us and then look at it from our own point of view
and how to make it better. Adapt to our own environments. If you just
stand on their shoulders, you will see further than the crowd.
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Friday, January 3, 2025
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: INNER STRENGTH
Jaime Jackson Safety Blog: INNER STRENGTH: “The sun shines not on us but in us.” John Muir We all have it. Some people may be better at tapping ...
INNER STRENGTH
“The sun shines not on us but in us.”
John Muir
We all have it. Some people may be better at tapping into it and going
deeper than others, but it is in there somewhere. Where does it come
from? Fortitude, persistence, resilience, preparation, relentlessness,
wisdom, courage, patience, strength, whatever label we choose to
put on it, these are just words we use. What counts is what we do
and how we do it. We may never know the exact answer to whatever
divine providence, or the universe has placed within us, or whatever
we have grown, developed, cultivated within ourselves, or both. We
are capable of things or so much more than what we ever “thought”
possible. The choices we make based on our values are the foundation
for everything we do. The hero and the coward feel the same inside.
Some people just make better choices. Some people are simply better
at hiding it. Choose courage. Choose truth. Choose to do your best no
matter what the circumstances may be. We may never know where
this inner strength comes from. Do your best and use it to the best of
your abilities. Be the best version of yourself in the moment you are
faced with it. Believe in yourself. Banish all doubt. A little doubt is ok,
it helps us prepare. The only true limitations are the limits we place on
ourselves. Challenge yourself regularly. Take on interesting challenges
that force us to grow. We do not always get to choose the load, but
we get to choose how we carry it. We are what we believe ourselves
to be. Do not lie to yourself. Do not fool yourself. Avoid constantly
comparing yourself to other people. Believe in yourself.
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